Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....

[jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net (Jon Lewis)]

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, kewl aid smile wrote:

> It also appears that earlier Linux kernels are vulnerable to this.
> The 1.2.13 machine tested froze for several minutes, but I couldn't get it
> to reboot.

I was unable to affect a 1.2.13 box at all...and a pitiful box it was.  I
was pinging a 386sx-16 (ne1k) running 1.2.13 from a P100 (3c509) running
win95.  Same win95 box successfully brought down my dual P133 running
2.0.22 before it was patched.

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